xiii, 548 p. ; 24 cm

Includes bibliographical references and index

Affiliating with Edward Said / Joseph Massad -- Edward Said remembered on September 11, 2004: a conversation with Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak / Ben Conisbee Baer -- Beginnings again / Michael Wood -- Side by side: the other is not mute / Laura Nader -- Edward Said and anthropology / Nicholas B. Dirks -- The critic and the public: Edward Said and world literature / Timothy Brennan -- Affiliating Edward Said closer to home: reading postcolonial women's texts / Denise deCaires Narain -- Translating heroism: locating Edward Said on Ahdaf Soueif's The map of love / Katherine Callen King -- Edward Said and the poetry of decolonization / Jahan Ramazani -- Edward Said in contemporary Arabic culture / Sabry Hafez -- "Long, languorous, repetitious line": Edward Said's critique of Arab popular culture / Anastasia Valassopoulos -- Edward Said and polyphony / Rokus de Groot -- The Arab/Jewish counterpoint: an interview with Daniel Barenboim / Hakem Rustom -- Speaking truth to power: on Edward Said and the Palestinian freedom struggle / Ardi Imseis -- Edward Said and the Palestine question / Avi Shlaim -- Representation and liberation: from Orientalism to the Palestinian crisis / Bill Ashcroft -- Said and the Palestinian diaspora: a personal reflection / Ghada Karmi -- The question of Zionism: continuing the dialogue / Jacqueline Rose -- Edward Said's impact on post-Zionist critique in Israel / Ilan Pappe -- The "postcolonial" in translation: reading Said in Hebrew / Ella Shohat -- Exile with/out God: a Jewish commentary in memory of Edward Said / Marc H. Ellis -- The incalculable loss: conversations with Noam Chomsky / Adel Iskandar -- "Contented homeland peace": the motif of exile in Edward Said / Robert Spencer -- A new "Copernican" revolution: Said's critique of metaphysics and theology / Abdirahman A. Hussein -- Edward Said and the possibilities of humanism / R. Radhakrishnan -- The Language of the unrequited: memory, aspiration, and antagonism in the utopian imagination of Edward Said / Asha Varadharajan -- Between humanism and late style / Lecia Rosenthal -- Secular divination: Edward Said's humanism / W.J.T. Mitchell -- Countercurrents and tensions in Said's critical practice / Benita Parry

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